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As we head into a new year, I've been thinking about how the current GM queue has (and has not) been working for us.

One of the biggest issues seems to be folks want to get on the queue but their game slot can come up somewhat randomly due to other factors and they might not always be ready; another is just having to constantly remind people, "Hey, you are up next, are you actually really really ready?"

Considering most games take less than a two week period from start to finish, and most of us would like to participate in at least two large-scale main games per month, I've been toying with the idea of a schedule instead of a literal queue.

Front means the first half of the month, back obviously the latter half. So, now instead of just asking to be placed in the queue, prospective GMs will request a specific time slot they feel confident they could run their game in. As an example, if the current queue were to run straight through, the new queue would look like so:

Now, say I wanted to jump on, but I already knew the next open spot (the back half of March) would not work for me; well then I just signup for early April instead.

With this system, I would hope that people would feel more confident to run when their spot came up, and would not need the reminder, and would hopefully not need to bump (I understand life can unexpectedly pop up).

What are thoughts on possibly switching to this style of queue?

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Hey folks. Is anyone interested in running anything? I'm happy to do another chapter in Newtown (probably the fight against vampiric influence this time... PM twdog and let him know.) but want to offer it up to anyone else who's interested.

Omega wrote:Hey folks. Is anyone interested in running anything? I'm happy to do another chapter in Newtown (probably the fight against vampiric influence this time... PM twdog and let him know.) but want to offer it up to anyone else who's interested.

I’m hoping to run at least one sometime this year... unfortunately, now is not that time.

Omega wrote:Hey folks. Is anyone interested in running anything? I'm happy to do another chapter in Newtown (probably the fight against vampiric influence this time... PM twdog and let him know.) but want to offer it up to anyone else who's interested.

I’m hoping to run at least one sometime this year... unfortunately, now is not that time.

Understood. Hope all is well up north.

Happy to run a vanilla vampiric conversion game... Maybe after next week?

Omega wrote:Hey folks. Is anyone interested in running anything? I'm happy to do another chapter in Newtown (probably the fight against vampiric influence this time... PM twdog and let him know.) but want to offer it up to anyone else who's interested.

I’m hoping to run at least one sometime this year... unfortunately, now is not that time.

Understood. Hope all is well up north.

Happy to run a vanilla vampiric conversion game... Maybe after next week?

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I'm about to wander stateside again for a month or two, and would have tons of time to run a game or two as well - put me down after Omega's game. Something non-vanilla for me, probably (maybe return to the elemental concept, or maybe just a vanilla-ish PM game).

Plus, if Omega does run a conversion game, I'll be dead nice and early . . .

DastardlyOldMan wrote:I'm about to wander stateside again for a month or two, and would have tons of time to run a game or two as well - put me down after Omega's game. Something non-vanilla for me, probably (maybe return to the elemental concept, or maybe just a vanilla-ish PM game).

Plus, if Omega does run a conversion game, I'll be dead nice and early . . .

Now that's some great news.

The elements. Not the early death.

Your elemental game was, if I recall, the one where I had a PM power but expected there was someone listening. What I was counting on was an imperfect listener, so I sent a flood of useless PMs. Just wikipedia articles about nothing. I think you were quite frustrated with me in the dead thread. One of my favorite TWG memories!